[Info-vax] Running OpenVMS native on x86 . . .

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:58:56 -0500, John Reagan wrote:

> "Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message
> news:oBoFU6UNeH6E at eisner.encompasserve.org...
>> In article <DqSdnemgG-cx8UPTnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John
>> Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>>>
>>> Neither are from HP & OpenVMS Engineering.
>>
>>   I believe Emerald was within DEC.
>>
>>
> Emerald was just a code name for some OpenVMS release (I forget which
> number it became).
> 
> I was the owner the Macro-32 compiler for many years.  Me and a few
> others did the Macro-32 compiler for Itanium.
> 
> Since a large portion of OpenVMS is in Macro-32, you'd need some form of
> compiler to generate the x86 code.  Unless I've been brainwashed into
> forgetting that I did that work [insert favorite conspiracy theory here
> like Hoff copying the source tree one late night in the basement of
> ZKO], we had no Macro-32 compiler that generated x86 code.

Not quite addressing your post, but definitely on topic for this thread:

http://www.avtware.com/vlog/

"Alpha running native on x86

vtAlpha can run directly on the x86 host. It includes an integrated 
operating system kernel that supports a broad range of peripheral 
devices, ensuring the vtAlpha solution supports and will continue to 
support most available x86 related peripherals.

It is an x86-based Alpha, a unique proposition."

vtAlpha can run on:

* - Bare metal
* - Hypervisor on bare metal
* - Hypervisor on Windows or Linux on bare metal

See also Vere Technologies:

http://www.vax-alpha-emulation.com/p/emulation/alpha/alpha-virtualization-
products.html

Thanks to Ian Miller for the last link.

-- 
Paul Sture